Archives for 8 November 2007
EP131: Hesperia and Glory
Published on 8 Nov 2007 at 10:15 pm.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated G.
Read ‘EP131: Hesperia and Glory’
-->By Ann Leckie. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard). First appeared in Subterranean Magazine #4.
He told me then of the antiquity and superiority of Martian civilization, and of Hesperia, which was the greatest of Martian nations. Each Hesperian learned, from his mother’s knee and throughout his schooling, the importance of right thinking. “On Mars,” he said, “we understand that what one thinks makes the world.”
“Do you mean to say that each of us makes our own world with his thoughts?” I’d heard the idea before, usually at two in the morning from young men drunk with a heady mix of champagne and philosophy, and whose lives had yet to run up very hard against reality.
“No, no,” said Atkins testily. “Nothing so trivial. There’s only one universe. But that universe is formed by thought. If it were left to undisciplined minds, the world would be chaos.”
Rated G. Contains classic Martian action/adventure and potentially hazardous philosophy.
